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8226The best-selling true story of the Red
Baron, by the man himself, Manfred von
Richthofen, the First World War8217sundisputed
8216ToGun8217 8226Newly illustrated with 21
contemporary images. 8226Inludes many of the
Red Baron8217s80 combat reports,
contemporary interviews with a selection of his
surviving victims and an extra chapter on the
death in combat of von Richthofen. 8226Has sold
over 3 million copies. THE RED BARON is the
memoir of the undisputed top gun of World War
18217saerial war, Captain Manfred von
Richthofen, the 8216ReBaron,8217who shot down
80 Allied aircraft. Originally published in
German in late 1917 as DER ROTE KAMPFFLIEGER (THE
RED AIR FIGHTER), it was a runaway bestseller.
The English language edition followed in
1918 without any official deal with the German
publishers as it was argued that
Richthofen8217saccounts of combat against the
Allied air force aircraft provided valuable
intelligence to use against the enemy. Originally
a cavalryman, Manfred transferred to the Imperial
German Army Air Service in May 1915, and quickly
distinguished himself as a fighter pilot. During
1917 he became leader of Jagdgeschwader 1,
better known as the 8216Fling
Circus8217because of the bright colours of its
aircraft and because the squadron moved
from place to place as a self-contained unit, in
the manner of a traveling circus, so that it
appeared wherever the fighting was thickest. It
would be operating at Verdun one week. The
next week it would be north of Arras. A few days
later it would be down on the Somme. Richthofen
was a brilliant tactician although his modus
operandi was as simple as it was
deadly. Typically, he would dive from above to
attack with the advantage of the sun behind him
(the victim would not see him
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coming blinded by the glare), with other pilots
of his flying circus covering his rear and
flanks. By 1918, he was regarded as a national
hero in Germany and held the
country8217shighest honour, the 8216Ble
Max8217 Richthofen was well-known in the Allied
countries and a respected advisory of military
aviators. THE AUTHOR Manfred von Richthofen was
born in 1892 in Kleinburg near Breslau, Lower
Silesia to a prominent Prussian
aristocratic family. He wrote his life story in
six weeks whilst convalescing after sustaining an
injury in aerial combat in July 1917. Richthofen
had been ordered to write the memoir by
the German Supreme Army Command because of its
huge impact on morale on the home front. He
returned to active duty in October but was shot
down and killed on 21 April 1918 aged just 25.
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The Red Baron